Has this Corned Beef Brisket Gone Bad?

[SoDakHawk]

Ok, so the week before St. Paddy's I went on a corned beef brisket buying spree and picked up 4 8 lbers while on sale at HyVee. Brought them home and made one, the other three went IMMEDIATELY to the deep freeze. Well, yesterday I was pulling something out of the deep freeze and noticed one of the sealed corned beef packages was blown up like a balloon. I thought that odd, must be off gassing, but how? It's been frozen solid since the day I brought it home. Picked it up and the package must have punctured when I did that and out came the most disgusting smelling fart gas I've smelled. Has this thing gone rancid while it was frozen solid?

Two questions. What the heck happened here? Is this meat still edible?

I threw it in the fridge to defrost and will decide this week whether it gets prepared or sent to garbage. The fart smell is still there though not as bad. It's still frozen as it's only been in fridge about 6 hours so far.

 

[The Tradition]

I'd toss it, dude.

Had a similar experience with a pork loin.

I should have tossed it.

 

[GOHOX69]

If it smells bad, chances are the meat is rotten. It's cheaper to buy another brisket than wind up in the er or morgue.

 

[SoDakHawk]

Yes. A $9 roast is not worth getting sick over so it's getting tossed.

My main question is how did this happen? It was immediately sent to the deep freeze that is set at 0* F and it's only been 1 month. How could this thing go bad? Is it because of the brining solution they come in?

Wondering if the other two will go bad too.

 

[torbee]

Eat it and find out. Unless yer yella.

 

[Formerly Rockymtnole]

I’m usually pretty lenient on these things, but would draw the line at meat that smells like farts.

 

[torbee]

I’m usually pretty lenient on these things, but would draw the line at meat that smells like farts.

What a pansy.

 

[3boysmom]

I have no idea what happened and would toss it, but corned beef doesn’t smell the best when it’s good. So if it smelled rancid for corned beef that’s frightening.

 

[claykenny]

It’s 100% bad if the package contained gas.

I would check your freezer temperature. That shouldn’t happen if it is consistently below 0 F.

 

[SoDakHawk]

It’s 100% bad if the package contained gas.

I would check your freezer temperature. That shouldn’t happen if it is consistently below 0 F.

It's zero. The alarm would go off if the temp raised out of range (10* I believe). There's thousands of dollars of meat in there and everything else is fine. Just this corned beef has done this.

 

[The Tradition]

Microbial deterioration of vacuum-packaged chilled beef cuts and techniques for microbiota detection and characterization: a review - PMC

Gas production from microbial deterioration in vacuum-packs of chilled meat leads to pack distension, which is commonly referred as blown pack. This phenomenon is attributed to some psychrophilic and psychrotrophic Clostridium species, as well as ...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

 

[Formerly Rockymtnole]

It's zero. The alarm would go off if the temp raised out of range (10* I believe). There's thousands of dollars of meat in there and everything else is fine. Just this corned beef has done this.

What if you had a power outage and then it went back on?

 

[The Tradition]

What if you had a power outage and then it went back on?

It is much more likely that something happened in the supply chain before the OP bought this package of spoiled meat.

 

[bdg8]

I’m usually pretty lenient on these things, but would draw the line at meat that smells like farts.

Same thing with females for me